# Hey, did you know...Oh, you've heard that 1,000,000 times? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 21, 2011, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625 "2011-11-21T09:53:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/21 "2011-11-21T18:05:40Z")
Did you know that Indians believe that when their picture is taken the camera steals their soul? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/22 "2011-11-21T18:12:06Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Did you know that Indians believe that when their picture is taken the camera steals their soul? Yes. And Eskimos have eleventy-three words for “snow.” ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/23 "2011-11-21T18:13:22Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Yes. And Eskimos have eleventy-three words for “snow.” :smack: I meant to include that one, but got distracted between the time I thought of these two and the time I posted them (it). ETA…Jewel lived in her car. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/24 "2011-11-21T18:16:42Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Yes. And Eskimos have eleventy-three words for “snow.” OK, if we’re doing false factoids, how about this old chestnut: The Internet was designed to survive nuclear war. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/25 "2011-11-21T18:30:56Z")
Do you know why the sky is blue? Because the sky reflects the ocean and the ocean reflects the sky. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/26 "2011-11-21T18:33:28Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Jewel lived in her car. [furious hijack] I hate that stupid bitch. Every time she appears in something public, it’s all about how wonderful she is and how lucky we are to have her music. Most egotistical celebrity I’ve ever heard speak. They interviewed her on a local radio station in '98 and when they asked “what’s it like going from car to star?”, she exploded on the poor morning DJs, going “Oh, like I haven’t been asked that before. Real original question.” She got so out of control, they hung up on her. Stupid cunt. I hope she’s back to living in her car.[/fh] ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/27 "2011-11-21T18:34:32Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Do you know why the sky is blue? Because the sky reflects the ocean and the ocean reflects the sky. I’ve heard that one before but I don’t think people repeat it often. Does this treasure come up commonly in your day-to-day? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/28 "2011-11-21T19:07:05Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > I’ve heard that one before but I don’t think people repeat it often. Does this treasure come up commonly in your day-to-day? Honestly, no. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/29 "2011-11-21T20:27:45Z")
I think I’m the one who keeps saying that what US Americans think of as Canadian bacon is actually back bacon - the bacon we eat regularly is just like US American bacon. I would apologize, except I’m not sorry. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Haunted\_Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/30 "2011-11-21T21:07:24Z")
Hey guys, I’ve got a trivia question for you!! _(Note: at least half of everybody reading this can give the correct answer right now, withouth even having read the question.)_ What was the first video ever played on MTV? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/31 "2011-11-21T21:42:35Z")
You’ll never guess who invented the toilet! JFK told the Germans that he was a jelly doughnut! The Chevy Nova didn’t sell in Mexico! Me / My Relative / A friend was bitten by a Brown Recluse! ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/32 "2011-11-21T21:52:48Z")
“A Beemer is a motorcycle, a Bimmer is a car.” Guess what? No one cares. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/33 "2011-11-21T21:58:19Z")
THIS is why old people are cranky. They have heard it, seen it, done it, suffered the fuck through it, and fixed it a hundred times over, whatever “it” is. And get off my lawn! (for the thousandth time) ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/34 "2011-11-21T22:17:38Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > 1. “Evolution doesn’t have a goal”, e.g. answering every GQ “Why didn’t evolution…?” with what amounts to “Because it didn’t.” Why not, if that’s the right answer? What should one say instead? Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/35 "2011-11-21T22:37:24Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Only correct if you think laws are what define what a food is or is not, which is kind of a strange position to take. > > Also, everyone knows whales are mammals. No they do not. I know plenty of persons – sadly uneducated persons or deliberately ignorant persons, but persons nonetheless – who believe that any beast that leaves full-time in the water is a fish. That’d include octopodes. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/36 "2011-11-21T23:11:12Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > “The Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.” > > Thanks Dad. > > My Dad can still tell me stuff I don’t know about WWII aviation, but everything else I’ve heard, let’s just say, before. Did you know that the Eagles of Death Metal are neither eagles nor do they play death metal? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/37 "2011-11-21T23:27:41Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > TAs for Champagne, technically Scotch Whiskey falls in to the same category. Only whiskey made in Scotland, blah, blah, blah… Which leads to another one. It’s spelled “whisky” if you are referring to Scotch Whisky and “whiskey” if you are referring to Irish Whiskey. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/38 "2011-11-22T00:16:13Z")
You only use 10% of your brain! ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/39 "2011-11-22T00:21:01Z")
> [@Silver\_Tyger](#): > > You only use 10% of your brain! Bullshit. I use only one percent. Thats my story and I am sticking to it. ---
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625/40 "2011-11-22T01:05:33Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Did you know that Indians believe that when their picture is taken the camera steals their soul? When I was in the 5th or 6th grade, we had some guy come in with a bunch of slides of pictures he took on a trip to Central America (or maybe South America I don’t remember). One of the pictures had a couple of upset street vendors. He said something to the effect of “They were upset because they didn’t want their picture taken, since they believe it steals their soul”. First of all: Yeah, I doubt it. Secondly, what kind of gigantic douchebag, thinks they believe that, but takes their picture anyway? Just, _click_, haha got your soul, good luck in Hell. Also when he got to the end of the first set of slides, and the screen was just blank white he said “This is a picture of the blizzard we came back to in Chicago”. He also said that at the end of every other set of slides he had. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-did-you-know-oh-youve-heard-that-1-000-000-times/603625.md?page=3)